Reminiscent of Cane Hill (even with the cover art), VEXED comes through with one of the few Nu Metalcore albums of this year. I was extremely excited seeing the genre tags on RYM, those are like my favorite genres. Alt Metal, Nu Metal, metalcore and Djent? Yes, please. What also gave me hope was the Loochie from Alpha Wolf feature. I mean I was HUGE on Alpha Wolf's last album, so that's an exciting feature.
Knowing that this band has a female vocalist was also exciting. I don't think I've ... read more
Vexed - Negative Energy
Genre: Metalcore
Country: UK
Final Verdict: 63% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 249th / 555
Highlight: Anti-Fetish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrVx05brvIk
Made me think of:
Jinjer
Code Orange
In Flames
I've been trying to get into this band a few time but always felt like their songs sounded the same musically and also through the vocal delivery. This album is actually really decent, feels really personal and the vocals are on point, but I don't know if I'll ever get back to it.
1 | PTSD 1:38 | |
2 | Anti-Fetish 3:58 | 83 |
3 | We don't talk about it 3:28 | 77 |
4 | X my <3 (Hope to die) 3:58 | 83 |
5 | Panic attack 3:25 | 72 |
6 | Lay down your flowers 3:30 feat. Alpha Wolf | 82 |
7 | There's no place like home 3:07 | 58 |
8 | Extremist 3:02 | 75 |
9 | Default 3:16 | 65 |
10 | Trauma Euphoria 3:57 | 71 |
11 | It's not the end 5:57 | 70 |
12 | DMT 2:02 | |
13 | Nepotism 4:39 | 66 |